About Us
Best-in-class Mandarin instructors with decades of experience teaching American language learners.
Our Story
MasterinMandarin was founded in 2020 as a platform for Chinese language instruction and cultural exploration. Our mission today remains the same: to improve cross-cultural understanding and exploration through language learning.
Our Team
The MasterinMandarin team draws on extensive experience with American language learners to provide culturally relevant and insightful Chinese language instruction. The teaching team combines decades of experience teaching Chinese as a foreign language at world-renowned programs in Beijing and the USA -- Tsinghua IUP, School Year Abroad - China, Yale University, Indiana University, Middlebury College, and Phillips Andover Academy to name a few.
The team’s depth of teaching experience is augmented by recently developed remote teaching skills, methodologies, and best practices. The MasterinMandarin team brings an unmatched level of excitement, flexibility, and inclusivity to the Chinese language learning process. Our teachers possess the patience to draw out more reluctant beginners, the attitude to help intermediate learners continue their language growth, and the expectations and wealth of knowledge to help advanced learners on the road to mastery. We look forward to learning together.
MasterinMandarin’s founding team first met when Sam was a study abroad student in Beijing in 2007.
Zhang Laoshi
Zhang Laoshi is an experienced Mandarin educator with a Bachelor's and Master's in Logic from Beijing University. With over 25 years of teaching experience, Zhang Laoshi has honed expertise in Mandarin language instruction, impacting numerous learners along the way.
Li Laoshi
Li Laoshi is an educator with a BA in English Language & Literature from Minzu University and a Masters in Pedagogy specializing in East Asian Languages & Culture from Indiana University. Her passion for teaching extends to introductory Chinese and Classical Chinese, with a particular fondness for the provinces of Yunnan and Qinghai.
Tie Laoshi
Tie Laoshi is an educator with a Bachelor's in Journalism from Lanzhou University and a Master's in Chinese Ancient Literature from Beijing Normal University. Tie Laoshi's teaching interests center around Introductory Chinese and Journalism, and there's a special affinity for the provinces of Yunnan and Zhejiang.
Sam
Frequently Asked Questions
No! We have course offerings for true beginners!
Courses are delivered through Zoom.
Standard classes typically meet 1 or 2 times a week. Custom 1-on-1 class students can choose a schedule and cadence that meets the needs of the student.
